Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Oz's Wicked Witch of the West melted and San Francisco's Millenium Tower is sinking




In San Francisco, a Sinking Tower and a Deepening Dispute.  (The New York Times, 9/22/2016)
The Millennium Tower, which its developers say is the largest reinforced concrete building in the western United States, has now sunk about 16 inches and is leaning six inches toward a neighboring skyscraper. The building’s tilt has become a public scandal, a dispute that has produced a wide-eyed examination of whether or not San Francisco’s frenetic skyscraper-building spree was properly monitored by city authorities. In a city bracketed by two major earthquake fault lines, the possibility of engineering flaws generates particular unease.

The orange banner is likely to be increasingly used.

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